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Arabs or Phoenicians, for the protection of traders. Here 
is a description of the palace of the Emperor of Monoma- 
tapa, from a writer of the seventeenth century :—“ The 
city of Monomotapa Moll placed near a branch of the 
river St. Esprit or Delagoa, S. lat. 25§, long. 39. The 
Sansons agree in the lat., but make the long. 52-|. Some 
call it Banamatapa, and others Madrogan. Dapper says, 
’tis a great town, six days’ journey from a palace called 
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Simboe, and twenty miles W. from Sofala. The im¬ 
perial palace here is very large, with four great porticoes, 
where the emperor’s guards keep centry in their turns. 
The out-parts are fortified with towers, and the inside 
is divided into several spacious rooms, garnish’d with 
cotton hangings of lively colours, and trimmed with 
gold. Some say, the ceiling, beams, and rafters, are gilt 
or cover’d with plates of gold; that the apartments are 
set out with chairs, gilt, painted, and enamell’d, and 
candlesticks of ivory hung on chains of silver. His 
